Required Packages

Build

This section describes how you can get kde to compile so that you can log in graphically (using kdm, the KDE display manager) and call konqueror (contained in KDEBASE, KDE's base package).

kdesupport

You can install kdesupport and its dependencies from SUSE by adding the KDE:Distro:Stable repository from
the openSUSE Build Service to your repositories. For openSUSE 12.1 add this Repository to YaST/zypper:

Please remember to skip any instructions from Getting_Started/Build that refer to kdesupport. Start to compile with kdelibs.

Using openSUSE Unstable Repositories

openSUSE, via its Build Service, provides a so-called unstable repository which contains weekly snapshots from KDE SVN trunk. These allow you to run a system install of unstable, but does not allow you to keep a stable system install while testing unstable in parallel.

Requirements

You need a supported openSUSE version, that is, at the time of writing, openSUSE 11.4 or 12.1 or openSUSE Factory (the always-on-development branch of openSUSE).

Installing packages from the unstable repository

Add the repository manually and perform an installation from the command line.